Notable: no venture investors, pre-money valuation was in the mid-teens when we looked at it, on low hundreds of K's of revenue.

I like the intersection of machine learning and human curation.

As a boutique financial research shop, love it. Modern execution of first rain, monitor-110 and instant information.

As a tech platform, the human curation creates a bottleneck for scalability, which cuts the valuation by a bunch, for me.

I like Emmett and tech+curation. They'll do well.

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The company, which is based in Dublin with operations in New York and London, is expected to announce on Friday that it has raised $1.5 million from a group of current and former senior executives at banks and hedge funds.